In the novel by Frederick Forsythe, already known to the Soviet reader on the Day of the Jackal (1971), the action is unfolding today in the USSR, the USA, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, France, Corsica …. The Nantucket Treaty between the United States and the USSR on arms reduction on the verge of collapse in connection with the abduction and death of the son of the President of the United States Among the conspirators are high-ranking Americans and Soviet Marshal Kozlov . In the center of the novel is the image of a superman negotiating the redemption of the president's son, and then at his own risk undertaking an investigation. Among the actors of the novel are Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Kryuchkov and other notable political figures. The writer again confirmed the title of the “king of bestsellers” after him.